On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 15:12 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Hi, > > some of you already know that I've been working on getting Linux (and > Fedora) to be a lot better about power usage on laptops by avoiding > spurious wakeups and context switches and such (look at the "wakeup" bug > in fedora bugzilla ;). > > As part of my job at Intel I've now released a user friendly tool that > allows everyone that uses it to see what the biggest problems on their > own laptop are... The results internally to Intel have been really good; > several people gained an hour of battery just by using the tool and > getting rid of (or fixing) 'broken' applications. > > PowerTOP can be downloaded from http://www.linuxpowertop.org > > > for completeness I've attached the full announcement text I used in > other places below. I hope that enough people will use it and report / > fix issues in software so that the whole Linux experience on laptops > will be a lot better in a few months.. Awesome. Were you planning on packaging this tool for Fedora, or should I whip something together? /me goes off to figure out why liferea causes 50.2% of the wakeups on his machine. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
